Update on Scrybe

Earlier this year, Simon Fodden wrote about Scrybe, an online calendar that was in beta at the time. Although it is still not generally available, Scrybe was written up in this weekend’s NY Times.

The calendaring functions look pretty intriguing, but as Simon pointed out, they may not be enough to cause people to leave their familiar programs. I’m still interested, though, if they can find some sort of solution that allows me to sync up my various calendars – my Google calendar for my personal life, Outlook for my work life, and my phone for important nags when I’m out and about.

One other thing that caught my eye in the article was a little comment about the snowball effect of a little popularity on the web these days. The company’s founder describes how he expected to attract 10,000 users in the space of six months, but in fact had 100,000 users in just a few weeks – all on a PR budget of $0! Word of mouth publicity has definitely never been easier.